Category: LGBTQ

The world can be a difficult place, and even more so for those in the LGBTQ+ community. As a congregation, we want to ensure that we make all people feel welcome and appreciated. We can show the community our commitment to this goal via the process of renewing our status as a LGBTQ+ Welcoming Congregation.

We ask people to take a few minutes, after the service or at home, “Welcoming Congregation Assessment of Commitments” to help the Welcoming Task Force identity our strengths and our challenges. Additionally, please join us in Conversations with the Board, as we discuss LGBTQ+-friendly language. We will be joined by Amanda Collins, a woman who is new to our KUUF community, and who is transgender.

Please know, as a newcomer and a member of the LGBTQ comity, I have found these efforts to be so comforting and inviting, like a beacon of hope, in a divisive era. Thank you, for your individual ad community efforts! —Gina Voladora

10:30am-11:30am, KUUF sanctuary, Dr. Jill Davidson – Our special guest speaker is Dr. Jill Davidson, School Psychologist at North Kitsap School District. Her PhD is from the school psychology program at the University of Texas at Austin. She has been a school psychologist for 37 years, working in Texas, Oklahoma, Kentucky, and Washington State. She is a woman of transgender history. Her professional interests have included understanding the development of reading comprehension, development of writing skills; gender issues; strategies for managing aggression in children, special education eligibility; and the ethics of school psychology practice.

7:00-8:30pm, The Q Center – For 11 years, Washington’s non-discrimination laws have ensured fair and equal treatment for our transgender family, neighbors and friends. But now, a new initiative—I-1552—has been filed that threatens to repeal critical protections for transgender Washingtonians. Initiative 1552 would put our state’s long-standing non-discrimination laws on the 2017 ballot—and risks making discrimination the law of the land in Washington.

Want to take action in Kitsap to protect our non-discrimination laws? Join us for a community advocacy training to learn what you can do in Kitsap County!